ANCIENT MYSTERIES
...AND MODERN TOURISTS.
It only takes two or three people in Bermuda shorts and funny hats to make the Gobi Desert or the Great Dismal Swamp look like a parking lot at Disney World.
BACK TO NATURE? (Megara Hyblaea)
Why do we visit archeological sites?
For two main reasons, really...WHOSE HOLOCAUST? (Florence)
History, they say, is written by the winners.
But often prematurely, before they have actually won.
FLORENTINE STREET CREDS (Florence)
"Ridotti come siamo,
non riesco più a conoscere i turisti!"
"We've fallen apart so badly,
I can't even pick out the tourists anymore!"
MUSSOLINI (RE)WRITES HISTORY (Segesta/ Calatafimi)
The Italians have a name for this sort of ponderous effusion…
STILE DA LAPIDE
= MEMORIAL STONE STYLE
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